Wccftech news, recently, a foreign netizen with ID reggie_gakil suddenly had an accident while playing "Red Dead Redemption 2" with RTX 4090: The power interface of the graphics card caught fire and directly burned the power connector.
The graphics card used by this netizen is Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC, which has only been more than a week since the acquisition. As can be seen from the above picture, the 12 pinholes below the power interface of the graphics card are seriously damaged, while the 4 pinholes above are relatively good. The player said his transmission cable had quality issues and he was looking for replacement from the manufacturer.
From the damage to the graphics card power interface, the main problem with the fire this time seems to be the 12 pins below. However, through the power supply connection cable, it can be found that the user is using an adapter cable with the NVIDIA logo, but it is still severely burned by .
At present, the cause of the fire is not yet determined. However, combined with the actual usage of GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, NVIDIA's 16-pin plug-in cable is usually thicker and difficult to run in a smaller PC chassis. Many times, users have to bend the cable to complete the connection, but it is likely that the bending has laid the foreshadowing for the wire to catch fire.
